(Two pictures from our May 2023 end-of-year party, with overlapping groups of folks because some people had to join late and others had to leave early!)

Andrea Heberlein (CV; BA in Biological Basis of Behavior, University of Pennsylvania, 1995; PhD in Neuroscience, University of Iowa, 2002)

Current Mind Perception Lab members:

Amy Cami (B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Clinical Psychology, expected 2024) is from Demarest, New Jersey. She is conducting her thesis on the effects of clinical training on empathy and is planning on pursuing a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology.

Clare diBiase (B.A. in Psychology, expected 2025) is from Atlanta, GA. She is interested in positive and business psychology and is considering pursuing either a graduate degree or a doctoral degree.

Anushka Fernandes (B.S. in Psychology, expected 2024) is from Charleston, SC. She is interested in attending medical school and continuing research into psychology during post-grad.

Jenna Gittle (B.S. Neuroscience and B.A. Philosophy, expected 2024) is from North Attleboro, MA. She is interested in the relationship between affect, cognition, and theory of mind/identity formation. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and open her own lab someday.

Yifan Jiang (B.A. in Psychology and Economics, expected 2024) is from Beijing,China. She is interested in attending graduate school in the field of user experience design.

Elise Joseph (B.A. in Psychology, expected 2024) is from Portland, OR. She is interested in the intersection of psychology and law, forensic psychology, and plans to pursue a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology.

Marlena Kruman (B.S. in Biology, expected 2024) is from Homer, NY. She is interested in the relationship between psychology and healthcare and plans on applying to dental school after graduation.

Madeleine Lee (B.A. in Psychology, expected 2024) is from Hillsborough, CA. She is interested in social and abnormal psychology and hopes to pursue a career in clinical psychology after graduation.

Jocelyn (Yihong) Lin (B.A. in Psychology & Economics, expected 2024) is from Guangzhou, China. She is interested in the intersection of psychology and economics and plans to study behavioral economics post-graduation.

Jessica Llewellyn (B.S. in Psychology, expected 2024) is from Princeton, NJ. She is interested in the intersection between business and psychology, and plans to pursue a graduate degree in organizational psychology. She is currently working on a thesis that explores people’s intuitions about the minds of religious figures.

Brighid McNeil (B.S. in Psychology, expected 2025) is from Wilmington, MA. She is interested in the intersection of psychology and medicine, and hopes to attend medical school after graduation.

Joey Monti (B.A. in Psychology, expected 2025) is from Rocky Hill, CT. He hopes to pursue an academic career looking at the intersection of psychology and religion after graduation

Canice Screene (B.A. in Psychology and African and African Diaspora studies, expected 2024) is from London, England. She is interested in pursuing post-graduate studies in developmental psychology with a specific interest in the impact of race and discrimination.

Emma Smirl

Thomas Vorisek (B.A. in Psychology, expected 2024) is from Glenview, IL. He is interested in research in psychology and is interested in pursuing a career in Clinical Psychology.

Wiebke Willebrand

Xinlu (Amanda) Zhou (B.S. in Psychology, expected 2025) is from China. She is interested in doing research in different areas of psychology and also considering applying to the graduate program of quantitative psychology.

Former Mind Perception Lab members:

Theses (for a list of thesis titles, please see the Teaching tab)

Kirstan Brodie (B.A. in Psychology, 2018) is a PhD student in Social Psychology at Cornell University.

Clare Bumpus (B.A. in Psychology, 2022) is working at Cambridge Health Associates.

Kyle Cuklanz (B.S. in Psychology, 2023) is working as a clinical research coordinator at McLean Hospital.

Jacqueline Davis-Wright (B.A. in Psychology, 2014) will graduate with her PhD in Clinical Community Psychology from DePaul University in summer 2022. She is completing her clinical internship at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, where she will stay on as a postdoctoral resident in Trauma Psychology for the 2022-2023 training year.

Serena Entezary (B.A. in Psychology, 2015) is working at SimpliSafe as a frontend developer.

Alex Garinther (B.A. in Psychology, 2013; B.A. in Communication, 2013; M.A. in Social Psychology, 2014) got his PhD in Psychology at the University of Oregon in 2021. He is currently putting his psychology training to work as a self-employed consultant.

Tiffany House (B.A. in Economics, 2013; M.A. in Higher Education, 2016) is the Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion Education – Health Sciences Campuses at Tufts University. She is also a doctoral candidate in the Contemporary Learning and Interdisciplinary Research PhD program at Fordham University.

Megan Kay (B.A. in Psychology, 2018) is in the Master’s in Social Work program at the University of Chicago.

Erin Laughlin (B.A. in Psychology, 2017) is working in Life Sciences Consulting for Capgemini Invent.

Cecilia Law (B.A. in Psychology, 2020) works as a behavioral health technician at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates, IL. She assists counselors with running skills groups, checking in with patients, charting patient progress, and supervising meals and visitation.

Jessica Letizia (B.A. in Psychology, 2014) is working in New York as the Vice President of Operations at LifeWorx, a company that provides in-home care for the elderly.

Zhanqin Winnie Liu (B.A. in Psychology & Economics, 2021) is in the M.S. in Global Health and Population program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Emma MacKinnon (B.A. in Psychology, 2020) is an associate customer success manager at Definitive Healthcare.

Lizzie Manning (B.A. in Psychology, 2016) works as a User Experience Designer at Think Company in Philadelphia.

Kristen Murray (B.A. in Psychology, 2017) received her MPH from the BU School of Public Health in May 2019. After working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a Program Coordinator in the Department of Quality and Safety, she is now at athenahealth, a healthcare tech company, on their Integration Services team.

Kayley Okst (B.A. in Psychology, 2019) is a PhD student in Social Psychology at NYU, working in the Motivation Lab with Dr. Gabriele Oettingen. She was previously a Research Coordinator at the Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, where she studied the effects of mindfulness practice on patients recovering from opioid addiction.

Emma Pearson (B.A. in Psychology and Communications, 2014) completed an honors thesis studying the effects of manipulating doctors’ focus on various aspects of their patients’ wellbeing. Emma is currently working at an ad tech company (DoubleVerify) on their customer success team.

Max Ruge (B.S. in Psychology, 2015) completed his Internal Medicine residency and is now in a cardiology fellowship program.

Alida Scecchitano (B.A. in Psychology, 2021) is now working as an Operations Associate at New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization.

Katie Shaffert (B.A. in Psychology, 2019) completed the DVM program at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and is now doing a veterinary internship.

Nicholas Stratigakis (2022) is working as a clinical research coordinator at MGH.

Sophia Sumners (2023)

Anna Tierney (B.A. in Psychology, minor in Theology, 2021) is a clinical research assistant in the Treatment and Etiology of Depression in Youth Laboratory at McLean Hospital, and will begin a clinical PhD program in fall 2024.

Nicholas Vissicchio (B.A. in Psychology & Political Science, 2013) completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, and is now a clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral fellow.

Ho Wong (B.S. in Psychology, 2023) is working as a clinical research coordinator at MGH.

Research assistants

Keely Bartram (B.A. in Psychology, 2016)
Saamir Choudhry
Nye Day
Eric Devlin (B.S. in Psychology,n2021)
Yinan (Lemon) Ding
Anna Fernandez (B.S. in Psychology, 2021)
Olivia Genovese
Nora (Yinuo) Guo
Donghee Han(B.A. in Business/Psychology from Sogang Univ, 2015)
Teddy Hoppe
Celeste Humphrey
Matthew Kern
Brittney Ji Hyun Kil (B.A. in Psychology, 2018)
Ana La Russa
Meghan Lee (B.S. in Psychology, 2019)
Desiree Lewis (graduated 2022)
Ivelisse Mandato (B.S. in Psychology, 2020)
Nicole Masuoka
Jazmin Mendes (B.A. in Psychology, 2019)
Mary Nanna (B.A. in Psychology)
Yasmine Nousari (B.A. in Psychology, 2021)
Oluwatomisin Oyinloye (B.A. in Psychology, 2021)
Kevin O’Hara (B.A. in Psychology & Communication, 2020)
Gabrielle Pawlak (B.A. in Psychology, 2021)
Zachary Pessia
Daniel Pineiro
Juan (JR) Rascón  (B.A. in Psychology, 2021) 
Wesley Ricketts (B.A. in Psychology & Linguistics, 2019)
Kierra Shirley (B.A. in Psychology, 2016)
Ariana Sista
Genesis Soto
Matthew Stachyra (B.A. in Psychology, 2016)
Patrick Stallwood (B.A in Psychology and Theology, expected 2021)
Connor Starkey
Andrea Useche Rosania (B.A. in Psychology, 2018)
Gabie Vicens (B.S. in Biology, 2023)
Joshua Villarosa
Stephanie Wall (B.S. in Psychology, 2019)
Lacey Zhang
Ellie Ziedman